06-04-2018, 12:27 PM
I am successfully running 16 drives on my 4GB Rock64, two 8x USB3/eSATA (USB3 mode) enclosures with ZFS on Bionic. Two 12TB RAIDZ2 arrays that I have been using since early ZFS days, never formatted, replaced many dead drives, no data loss issues.. and mounted the same array on almost every OS possible, including within VMs with both PCI/USB passthrough and direct .. extremely happy with it all, and far fewer issues than my previous (~2005) mdraid/XFS setup.
2x Mediasonic H82-SU3S2, purchased in 2011/2013 - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GYDMYG
- These are nice because they have JMicron eSATA also, compatible with PMP so one eSATA cable per 8x drives.
Uspeed Superspeed USB 3.0 HUB 4 port - also from around 2011, not available anymore but it looks like this:
http://mojomojo.co/wp-content/uploads/20...G_3087.jpg
I am using my Rock64 as a NAS and full-time work/dev PC (12-16 hours/day, VSS Code, SQL admin, etc) and have not booted up any x86 devices in a couple of weeks.
Zero stability issues other than Chromium locking up the machine at times (Firefox 60 is more responsive/video seems to work better anyway) , using ZFS-DKMS 0.7.5 from ubuntu bionic repo (with a slight build fix).
On Rock64, seeing around 40-50MB/s transfer times over eth to a Windows desktop with samba. I can get around 180-280MB/s in optimal conditions with eSATA and the old 2TB drives I am using .. we'll see what the Rock960Pro has in store there, but this is fantastic and plenty fast/stable as a starting point for my needs.
2x Mediasonic H82-SU3S2, purchased in 2011/2013 - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GYDMYG
- These are nice because they have JMicron eSATA also, compatible with PMP so one eSATA cable per 8x drives.
Uspeed Superspeed USB 3.0 HUB 4 port - also from around 2011, not available anymore but it looks like this:
http://mojomojo.co/wp-content/uploads/20...G_3087.jpg
I am using my Rock64 as a NAS and full-time work/dev PC (12-16 hours/day, VSS Code, SQL admin, etc) and have not booted up any x86 devices in a couple of weeks.
Zero stability issues other than Chromium locking up the machine at times (Firefox 60 is more responsive/video seems to work better anyway) , using ZFS-DKMS 0.7.5 from ubuntu bionic repo (with a slight build fix).
On Rock64, seeing around 40-50MB/s transfer times over eth to a Windows desktop with samba. I can get around 180-280MB/s in optimal conditions with eSATA and the old 2TB drives I am using .. we'll see what the Rock960Pro has in store there, but this is fantastic and plenty fast/stable as a starting point for my needs.
